Our Creation Care Committee, in collaboration with the Well Spirituality Center in LaGrange Park, is making available to all at no cost, a three part presentation led by Sr. Pat Bergen, CSJ, which can be viewed online.

• Jan 15: Where On Earth Is God? 
• Jan 23: The Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor: One Cry
• Jan 30: What Does Liturgy have to do with Care of Creation.

Sessions will be presented at 9:30am and at 7:00pm each day and will be recorded for future viewing. Please register by January 30

https://csjthewell.org/progrmas/summoned-to-care-for-our-common-home-parishes/

There will be exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Benediction on the third Monday of the Month from 5:00 to 7:00pm. Our next period of adoration is Monday February 17. There is free validated parking at MartPark, Orleans and Hubbard.

On the Feast of St. Blase, Monday, February 3, throats will be blessed during the 7:00am and 12:10pm Masses. This ritual recalls the Saint's timely rescue of a boy choking on a fish bone.

Our next preparation session for parents (and, if possible, godparents) of infants to be baptized is Monday, March 10, at the Rectory. Sessions are from 7:00 to 8:15pm.  These sessions are for first time parents and for parents who have never before attended a preparation session. Call the Parish Office to register. It is not necessary to wait for the baby to be born to attend a preparation session. Baptisms normally take place on the second and fourth Sundays of the month at 1:15pm and on the first weekend of the month during Mass. More here

One of the benefits we anticipate from our new information system Breeze is better communication with parishioners. We were amazed when our first attempt at using Breeze for the weekly online bulletin mailing resulted in a nearly ten percent failure rate. Many of these email addresses had not been verified for years. If you did not receive an email from Assumption these past four Fridays (and did not opt out of the mailing), then we do not have your email in the new system. Here is how you can help. Click REGISTER. We’ll use your entries to fix our records, and we promise not to bother you with a lot of “junk” mail.

Assumption has a prayer service in honor of St. Peregrine, the cancer saint, following the 12:10 Mass on Monday. St. Peregrine was a fourteenth century Servite Friar who was miraculously healed of cancer after spending a night in prayer before an image of Christ crucified.

Have you seen the invitation to Be One of The 300 in the weekly bulletin? (see it here)

If we have 300 people willing to make a sustaining donation of $10 a month, then we will be able to adequately fund not only Assumption Shares, but also the Saturday sandwiches we make for Chicago Help Initiative and the monthly grocery bill for the migrant family of eight that Assumption helps support. $10 a month is a very small amount that will go a long way if we have the participation we need. And your monthly gift is easy to set up electronically. Just click HERE. The first option in the dropdown menu will be Assumption Shares.